My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book was an enigma for years. The pages were fervently and secretly read in the playground at school. Giggles and blushes matched with intrigue and shock. For all that, I had never read the entire book through and it was always something I wanted to do. I have finally read it (about 17 years later than I should have) and was mildly amused and entertained but also quite impressed with the frankness with which Blume writes. It is this frankness that caused a lot of the controversery and though I have no children, I can imagine it is a hard decision to make to allow your tweenage (or even teenage) girl to read about sex in such an open way. Although the book was written in the seventies, it endures and it just goes to show that teenage love and passion is essentially unchanged. I hope I will have the strength to pass this book on to my girl (if I ever have one) sufficiently late that she has the most of her childhood but before it becomes moot.
